The Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease | 
 enlarge | Author: Alice Wexler
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0300105029
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8510097471
EAN: 9780300105025
ASIN: 0300105029
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
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DIVP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made visible the historical experience of a family affected by the dreaded disorder of movement, mind, and mood her neighbors called St.Vitus's dance. Doctors later spoke of Huntington#8217;s chorea, and today it is known as Huntington's disease. This book is the first history of Huntington#8217;s in America./PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" /PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"Starting with the life of Phebe Hedges, Alice Wexler uses Huntington#8217;s as a lens to explore the changing meanings of heredity, disability, stigma, and medical knowledge among ordinary people as well as scientists and physicians. She addresses these themes through three overlapping stories: the lives of a nineteenth-century family once said to #8220;belong to the disease#8221;; the emergence of Huntington#8217;s chorea as a clinical entity; and the early-twentieth-century transformation of this disorder into a cautionary eugenics tale. In our own era of expanding genetic technologies, this history offers insights into the social contexts of medical and scientific knowledge, as well as the legacy of eugenics in shaping both the knowledge and the lived experience of this disease./PP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" /P/DIV
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